SCOTTISH
POLICE FEDERATION
5 Woodside Place, Glasgow, G3 7QF
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The Scottish Police Federation represents all police officers in the
ranks of chief inspector and below, about 15,000 people, over 98%
of all police officers in Scotland.
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31
August 2005
SEX OFFENDERS |
ACPOS call for debate on
"suspected" sex offenders being placed on the register.
Mr
Joe Grant of the Scottish Police Federation said,
“We
agree that this should be further discussed, and generally support
this is as a proportionate development of a risk assessment strategy.
Simply put, we understand that the risk of further crimes being committed
by a sex offender is far higher than for almost every other crime.
The protection of the communities we live in must be the primary consideration
and with this in mind, the presumption that sex offenders should be
freed on bail should also be overturned.”
